August 2018
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 30m
English
Once you have instrumented your application, you will need to store your data somewhere. As I mentioned in the Instrumenting an application section of this chapter, there are many possible tools you can use. I will be talking about some of the tools, but be aware that there are many others. Talk to your friends, do research online, and try different tools to figure out what is best for you, your team, and your organization.
I tend to organize monitoring tools into two buckets. This is often a simplification of these systems, but it helps me to think about how they work. These two buckets are polling applications and push applications.
Polling (also known as pull) applications scrape data ...